Command table utility (option 3.9)

The Command Table utility (option 3.9) enables you to create or change ISPF application command tables. When you select this option, a panel is displayed (Figure 1) to prompt you for an application ID. The name of the command table is then derived by adding CMDS to the application ID. If the table exists in the table input library, ISPTLIB, it is displayed and can be modified. If the table does not exist in the table input library, a new table is generated.

The command table displays the search order of commands for a particular logical screen. The order is from top to bottom of those commands displayed. The "User table" and "Site table" fields are blank if no values are set for them in the ISPF Configuration table, or if values have been set but the tables do not exist in the "ISPTLIB" concatenation.

You cannot use this utility to change a command table that is currently in use. Command table ISPCMDS, the system command table, is always in use by the Dialog Manager component. If you enter ISP in the Application ID field, ISPF displays the ISPCMDS command table in read-only mode.

While you are using this utility to change a command table, the table cannot be used for other purposes. For example, you cannot use split screen and select a function with NEWAPPL(XYZ) if you are changing command table XYZCMDS.

Figure 1. Command Table Utility panel (ISPUCMA)

   Menu  Help
 ─ ┌─────────────────────────────── Commands ────────────────────────────────┐
 I │ ISPUCMA                 Command Table Utility                           │
   │                                                                         │
 1 │   Specifications                       Command table search order       │
   │   Application ID . . ISR               Application table  . : ISR       │
 2 │   Enter "/" to select option           User table 1 . . . . : USER      │
   │      Show description field            User table 2 . . . . :           │
 3 │                                        User table 3 . . . . :           │
 4 │                                        Site table 1 . . . . : SITE      │
   │                                        Site table 2 . . . . :           │
 5 │                                        Site table 3 . . . . :           │
 6 │                                        System table . . . . : ISP       │
 7 │                                                                         │
 8 │ If no application ID is specified, the current application ID will be   │
 9 │ used. The name of the command table to be processed is formed by        │
 1 │ prefixing the application id to the string 'CMDS'.  For example:        │
 1 │ Application ID  . .  TST results in a command table name of 'TSTCMDS'.  │
 1 │                                                                         │
 1 │ Command ===>                                                            │
 1 │  F1=Help       F2=Split      F3=Exit       F7=Backward   F8=Forward     │
 O │  F9=Swap      F12=Cancel                                                │
   └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 F10=Actions  F12=Cancel